Breadcrumb

On the Rise

Forest Abbott-Lum '15

Awarded Princeton-in-Asia fellowship to work on legal reform and energy issues in the fight against climate change with the Natural Resources Defense Council in Beijing. She now works for the NYC Compost Project

Rohail Altaf '17

Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at NYC Train Sign, a tech startup in Brooklyn that provides local train times and delays above ground and without the hassle of apps.

Emma Dorothy Conley '10

Artist and designer whose practical and speculative work aims to expand realities and a producer at the Center for Genomic Gastronomy.

Kate Davis '14

Founder of jewelry brand Knockout, a collection of rings designed with self-defense in mind. A portion of every sale is donated to SAVI (Sexual Assault and Violence Intervention) at Mount Sinai.

Ousseynou Diome '14

Called a “creative disruptor” in the field of agricultural finance by Forbes and currently pursuing an MBA at Stanford University.

Anais Duplan '14

Poet, author of Take This Stallion, director of the Center for Afrofuturist Studies, an artist residency program for new media artists of color, and MFA candidate at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop

Kathryn Furby '08

Scientist turned filmmaker and founder of Tiny Beaker Media, which harnesses the power of storytelling to show how anyone can become a scientist. PhD from the Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

Devin Gaffney '10

Developer at Boston-based market intelligence platform Crayon and scholar whose work focuses on behavior adoption— modeling the emergence of opinions with groups of people.

Daniel Goldberg '11

Filmmaker whose work, including The Master Cleanse (2013) and Stationary (2015), seamlessly blends popular television, cult films, and queer cinema to explore the self-help obsessions of privileged Brooklynites and the grey areas between love and friendship.

Nicholas Haas '10

Analyst at Goldman Sachs.

Lea Hershkowitz '11

Interior architect with a Masters of Design from the Rhode Island School of Design working on projects such as creating “microbial diversity” in the air purification systems of hospital ICUs to benefit patients’ physical health, and former producer at Juicy Couture.

Curator exploring how the internet is shaping art and culture, and organizer of Philips Auction House’s first digital art auctions, which Wired called an “art breakthrough”.

Tambu Kudze '10

Medical resident at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and former research technician in the Kaplan Lab at the department of molecular biology, Massachusetts General Hospital.

Jeva Lange '15

Staff writer at TheWeek.com and managing editor of the Bennington Review whose writings have appeared in LitHub, The Awl, Vice, The Rumpus, and Electric Literature, among other publications.

Bruna Dantas Lobato '15

MFA candidate at New York University, editor-at-large for Asymptote Journal, and assistant international editor for Washington Square Review, whose writings have appeared in The Christian Science Monitor, The Millions, and other publications.

PhD candidate and a Ford Foundation Fellow at the City of Hope, where he studies the formation of cancer-associated genetic abnormalities.

Brian Morrice '10

Title Office and Legal Assistant at Rudolph Management, a development and property management firm. Masters from Tulane University in Sustainable Real Estate Development. Former White House intern during the Obama administration.

Max Nanis '12

Computational biologist, artist, and programmer dubbed a “digital rock star” by The New Yorker

Poet whose first collection, Cannibal (2016), won a Prairie Schooner Book Prize and who received the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation in 2015.

Will Stratton '09

Songwriter, guitarist, and composer whose albums and online releases have received national attention from outlets like NPR for their vivid storytelling and compelling instrumentation.

Molly Tarlov '08

Actor best known for her role in the MTV series Awkward.

Ben Underwood '13

Co-Founder and President of Resonant Energy, which brings solar energy to underserved communities. Fulbright scholar who studied biogas in China and recipient of Davis Projects for Peace Grant, with which he developed five urban biogas projects in Kathmandu.

Maia Villa '15

Actress, writer, rocker, and queer Xicanx who liberates marginalized voices. Artist and producer for LGBTQ+ and Latinx play festivals in East LA. Operations and Development Associate at CoachArt, a nonprofit providing arts and athletics for kids impacted by chronic illness.